California Campaign for Safe Access

The California Campaign for Safe Access is ASA's oldest state campaign. There are more legal patients, providers, and recommending physicians in California than any other state. More than 1.4 million patients have safe, reliable, and dignified access to medicine in the state, but significant challenges remain.

The mission of the California Campaign for Safe Access is:

To monitor, implement, and improve medical cannabis law in California; and

Join the conversation... Sign up today for the ASA California Campaign for Safe Access internet discussion list to talk with other activists and stakeholders about medical cannabis issues in the state.

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Steph Sherer is the Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s leading medical cannabis patients’ advocacy organization. Please join her at one of several community meetings to talk about medical cannabis at the local and state level this year and next.

AB 258, the Medical Cannabis Marijuana Organ Transplant Act, will prevent a patient from being denied life-saving access to an organ transplant based solely on their status as a legal medical cannabis patient.

ASA believes that workable regulations and state licensing are an important part of expanding and preserving safe, legal, and dignified access to medical cannabis in California. We call on lawmakers, patients, and other stakeholders to cooperate in creating legislation that works for everyone. These “Points of Unity” are designed to help facilitate that process. Your input is welcome.

Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s leading medical cannabis patients’ advocacy organization, is collecting data about discrimination against legal medical cannabis patients, primary caregivers, and providers to help educate lawmakers and regulators. Our hope is that this information will help create better laws and regulations to prevent medical cannabis discrimination in the future.

I want to invite you to join a new email discussion list ASA is launching to help facilitate conversations about medical cannabis issues in California. The ASA California Campaign for Safe Access (ASA-CCSA) mailing list will be a primary contact point for patients, advocates, and others to share ideas and constructive debate on state legislation, local ordinances, initiatives, and court cases.

A new study shows that 1.4 million Californians have used medical cannabis and an overwhelming majority of those users (92%) believe cannabis helped treat the symptoms of a serious medical condition. The study, which will be published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review, challenges the commonly held perception that medical cannabis is being overused by healthy people and demonstrates that California’s medical cannabis laws are providing real relief to a lot of people.